According to Zinsser, such "fanciful and subtly demeaning images" have distorted history's verdict on Du Châtelet's intellectual achievements, which were formidable by any standard.
Suppressed or distorted history has long fed the Balkan gyre of violence; perhaps this trial may help to break that cycle by laying out the facts.
At worst, they distort history.
"Well, the Internet allows these people to distort history.
"Know a little and keep on repeating it".It also distorts history.
"The priority isn't to distort history but to tell an interesting story".
"This movie distorts history, confuses and poisons people's minds and impacts national unity," he said.
The repatriation argument, relying on claims of historical integrity, itself distorts history.
Yet Mr. Putin himself now seems to recognize, however tentatively, the domestic and international costs of distorting history.
Running the British Museum is difficult because you need to make the past accessible without distorting history, or prehistory.
